Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell (born 1950) is an American novelist renowned for her debut speculative fiction novel The Sparrow (1996), which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, BSFA Award, James Tiptree Jr. Award, and earned her the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, along with its sequel Children of God (1998); she later transitioned to acclaimed historical novels like Doc (2011) and Epitaph (2015), which received multiple honors including Ohioana awards and True West Magazine's Best Historical Western. site.